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Unit 2 Say Yes
Tobias Wolff
1.
They were
doing the dishes, his wife washing while he dried.
Unlike most men
he knew, he really
pitched in on the housework. A few months earlier
he'd
overheard
a
friend
of
his
wife's
congratulate
her
on
having
such
a
considerate
husband.
2.
They talked
about different things and somehow got on the
subject of whether
white
people
should
marry
black
people.
He
said
that
all
things
considered,
he
thought it was a bad idea.
3.
4.
Sometimes his
wife got this look where she pinched her brows
together and bit
her
lower
lip.
When
he
saw
her
like
this
he
knew
he
should
keep
his
mouth
shut,
but he never did. Actually it made him
talk more. She had that look now.
5.
she
asked
again,
and
stood
there
with
her
hand
inside
a
bowl,
just
holding
it above the
water.
6.
and we've always gotten
along just fine. I don't need you coming along now
and
implying that I'm a
racist.
7.
didn't
imply
anything,
she
said,
just
don't
see
what's
wrong
with
a
white
person marrying a
black person, that's all.
8.
don't
come
from
the
same
culture.
Why,
they
even
have
their
own
language.
That's okay with
me, I like hearing them talk.
9.
you
wouldn’
t like to marry a black person,
is that it
10.
A person from their
culture and a person
from
our culture
could never
really know each other.
11.
12.
13.
14.
Oh
boy,
he
thought.
He
said,
take
my
word
for
it.
Look
at
the
statistics.
Most of those
marriages break up.
15.
Many of them were still
greasy.
I suppose you think the same
thing about two foreigners getting
married.
16.
comes from a completely
different background
17.
18.
repeating his words so that
they sounded hypocritical.
said, and
threw all the silverware back into the
sink.
19.
She stared down at it,
her
lips
pressed tight
together,
then plunged
her hands
under
the surface.
by the wrist and held it
up. Her thumb was bleeding.
20.
move,
said.
ran upstairs to the
bathroom
and
rummaged
in
the
medicine
chest
for
alcohol,
cotton,
and
a
Band-Aid.
When
he
came
back
down
she
was
leaning
against
the
refrigerator
with
her
eyes
closed,
still
holding
her
hand.
He
took
the
hand
and
dabbed
at
her
thumb
with
the
cotton.
The
bleeding had stopped. He squeezed it to
see how deep the wound was.
21.
that
she
appreciated
how
quickly
he
had
come
to
her
aid.
He'd
acted
out
of
concern
for her, he thought that it would be a
nice gesture on her part not to start
up that conversation again, as he was
tired of it.
22.
23.
24.
He began to wash the silverware
again.
25.
26.
27.
28.
probably wouldn't even have
met. The only black girl I ever really knew was my
partner in the debating
club.
29.
30.
the rinsing nozzle and
sprayed the silverware.
31.
say
I
am
black
and
unattached,
she
said,
we
meet
and
fall
in
love.
32.
He glanced
over at her. She was watching him and her eyes
were bright.
he
said,
taking
a
reasonable
tone,
is
stupid.
If
you
were
black
you
wouldn't
be
you.
As
he
said
this
he
realized
it
was
absolutely
true.
There
was
no
possible
way of arguing with
the fact that she would not be herself if she were
black.
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